Friday, November 20th marks the twenty-first year of the Transgender Day of Remembrance – a poignant reminder of the work communities should be pursuing. Established to memorialize and honor those who have lost their lives to transgender violence, th...
There is a long-standing public relationship between Black femininity and anger. The Angry Black Woman trope is infamous and can be spotted over and over again in popular culture. For many decades, this connection has been heavily shamed and has been...
This election equipped a suffocating America with an oxygen tank, hope and a concrete plan to address the pandemic and the upholding of key human rights. Along with the victory came a sweeping reform in the cannabis arena. New Jersey voted to amend t...
“I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.” — President Ronald Reagan, addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 21, 1987 In the United States, the...
Karim Kassem, a filmmaker, director, and screenwriter from Lebanon, has had a year full of lows and highs. The good: he wrapped up production on not one, but two feature-length films. Only The Winds, his first ever feature length film, and Octopus, a...
Yesterday a video surfaced of Trump and Biden supporters clashing in DC. There has been quite a lot of aggression spilling over from the aftermath of Trump’s Million MAGA March. In this instance the MAGA marchers found themselves dreadfully outnumber...
The past can often provide us a blueprint for a way forward and this applies to climate change. While the task of tackling toxic industries perpetuating the crisis seems like a daunting task, campaigns have been launched and successfully executed aga...
Shadi Ramey is a chef and hemp farmer who combines her love for cultural anthropology, diversity, sustainability, Ayurveda, hemp, and psychedelics to craft culinary, conscious wellness infused with herbalism and ethnobotany. Ramey’s journey began i...
Technology today is evolving at an unprecedented pace, redefining everything we know about the market and commercial activities. Each day, technological advancement is opening new avenues for mankind to transform various aspects of traditional activi...
Covid-19 has significantly altered our lives and definitions of safety. For refugees, the crisis has had abysmal consequences. Not only are the living condition of refugee camps wildly inadequate for bracing a pandemic, but the coronavirus has also m...
